Very dystopian and effective, Mike.

Comment is about 'The Village' (blog)

Original item by Mike Bartram

It's the result that counts, John. Did you head South for the parade?

Comment is about I HAD A DREAM (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Thank you, Rolph. I think your poem perfectly conveys Trump's total lack of shame. I like 'delusion's tank' and 'freak parade' (we know who the freaks are!) as illustrations of his mendacity. It was also noticeable that while he interrupted Ramaphosa, he sat in apparent awe when the white golfers in the SA delegation spoke.

I agree with your concluding verses: world leaders should not go on indulging this moron and volunteering for his bear pit. Isolation may be the one thing he fears.....

Comment is about Nothing Embarrasses This Man (blog)

Original item by Rolph David

Tribalism, Uilleam. Nothing wrong with that.
And thanks for the Likes, Rolph, Larisa and Red Brick.

Comment is about I HAD A DREAM (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Thanks for your reading and comments Uilleam.

Many an atrocity wrapped in and hidden behind the shroud of belief in scripture.

Many an atrocity hidden behind and conducted under the veiled guise of gods word...

David RL Moore

Comment is about Moses meets Mo (blog)

Original item by David RL Moore

Thank you for your likes:
hugh
Stephen Gospage
Aisha Suleman
Yanma Hidayah

Oh, how the establishment hate being embarassed by public figures…notably those who, realising their own good fortune, stand up for social justice:

Marcus Rashford “should have spent more time perfecting his game and less time playing politics.”…said a Tory MP. Vile bigot!

Comment is about Haiku for 2025 [No.16. What Genocide?] (blog)

Original item by Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh

Rule number one in the manual: When in doubt, brew up!
Rule number two: have another!

Comment is about The Magic Cure (blog)

Original item by Rick Varden

Hear, hear!😊

Comment is about Ready, Set, Rise! (blog)

Original item by Aisha Suleman

Your first line is a great positive!

Comment is about Home (blog)

Original item by Mahira

The day with no light

What a line!

Comment is about flashlight (blog)

Original item by Landi Cruz

"How the most impossible situations, became the foundations for greatness"

How true!

Comment is about Fear & Contemplation (blog)

Original item by Sia T

Thank you Stephen.
The quaint complaint: "It just isn't cricket"! says much about us.😊

Comment is about The Oval, 1965 (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

Thanks for the likes:
Nigel Astell
Red Brick Keshner
Larisa Rzhepishevska
Sia T
Rolph David
AirlogRigsMaria (Arry)

It will be written in the annals of history, and to our eternal shame, that Britain, a nation which in years past, considered itself the bringer of “civilisation and culture” to peoples we once looked down on as “savages”, should be complicit in such barbarity.

Comment is about Maternity to Eternity (blog)

Original item by Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh

The hopes and fears of all the years,
the woes of being a footy fan!😉

Comment is about I HAD A DREAM (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Thanks Mike.
Memories of "The Prisoner" and Portmeirion - a lovely place.

Comment is about 'The Village' (blog)

Original item by Mike Bartram

Thank you folks! ❤
Red Brick Keshner
Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh
Aisha Suleman
Holden Moncrieff
Hélène
Auracle
hugh

Comment is about A Poem For All Ages (so I can belong) (blog)

Original item by AirlogRigsMaria (Arry)

So true! 😊

Comment is about The Effort Is the Flame (blog)

Original item by Aisha Suleman

Spring! Spring! Spring!
The bells ring, ring, ring!
I am in the park under the tree.
I am free, free, free!

The crows are sitting in the tree,
They are also free, free, free.
Nothing clever comes into my head,
Only foolish things instead.

More than that!

Those critters that are on the tree
They have more freedom than me.
They litter, they throw on my head.
Should I cry or be glad?


©Larisa Rzhepishevska

Comment is about Should I Сry Or Be Glad? (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

Thanks you for the bouquet of lovely flowers Red, Hugh, Stephen. Aisha, Holden and David. Very much appreciated. I will now look you all up and read your words too. 😊

Comment is about Counting Sleep (blog)

Original item by Frances Macaulay Forde

Thanks @Rolph David 🌷... it seems only a few get the alignment. But we can't please absolutely every one🌷🕊️🙏🏻

Comment is about constants of change (blog)

Original item by Red Brick Keshner

...who fell in love @Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh 🌷🕊️🙏🏻

Comment is about constants of change (blog)

Original item by Red Brick Keshner

Hi Reggie,

Thanks for checking in and for the comments.

I'm not sure that I ended on an optmistic note though.

All the best,

David

Comment is about Moses meets Mo (blog)

Original item by David RL Moore

Thanks Stephen
You sound like my kind of next-door
neighbour Uilleam 💕

Comment is about The Heat is On (blog)

Original item by Nigel Astell

I've seen this story, Rolph.
But there's nothing unsurprising about the way those lies were covered in the UK.
The poison - spreading, race-baiting Toryrag was up to its usual standard, mendacity oozing from every line.

Comment is about Nothing Embarrasses This Man (blog)

Original item by Rolph David

What a line: Friendship is a theorem unbroken - forever true.
Regards,
Rolph

Comment is about constants of change (blog)

Original item by Red Brick Keshner

Speaking of shrouds, David:
What kind of sick mentality is it, which in the guise of sending (only a trickle to date) trucks of aid to two million 2,000,000 starving people has just sent two trucks full of burial shrouds? I kid you not.

The scum in the UK government who continue to give their support to those doing these things, should be shown up for what they are:
sick, depraved perverts.

Comment is about Moses meets Mo (blog)

Original item by David RL Moore

I hope you didn't think my commment dismissive of your poem, Branwell.
I see some pitiful sights around town. most recently, a frail-looking woman who looked as though she had been given a beating.
The sad truth is that mental health, and any other social services which once alleviated such suffering have been deliberately decimated in the name of political ideology.

Comment is about Introductory Matter (blog)

Original item by branwell kent

I admired the optimism in your last comment David...so I gave you a like!

Comment is about Moses meets Mo (blog)

Original item by David RL Moore

Fantastic read, fabulous winning poem & wonderous selections! Poetry at its best! 💛💗♥️💜💚💙

Comment is about Di Slaney wins Write Out Loud’s ‘Echoes’ competition with ‘Dolly Parton’s wig’ - in memory of a ‘dear friend and inspiration’ (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Thus spake the mathematician?😏

Comment is about constants of change (blog)

Original item by Red Brick Keshner

Thank you Naomi.
We must not lose hope for the sake of our children.

I was walking the other day, in what was a former industrial wasteland suffering two-hundred years of pollution and neglect.
Wildlife and flora now thrive in what has been transformed into a pleasant canalside parkland, mainly by volunteers teaming up with businesses. They have planted fruit trees at regular intervals, under which are solid benches on which we can rest. A most pleasant surprise!
💗🌷💐

Comment is about BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY (blog)

Original item by Naomi

Thanks for the likes so far...

David

Comment is about Moses meets Mo (blog)

Original item by David RL Moore

Dear Hugh

This poetry is amazing and seems especially insightful to me because it talks about the problems I struggle with a lot, anxiety and anger.
Your comment on my latest work 'Home' brought me to your account and I see that you too acknowledge the importance of emotional stability. Thank you for sharing your views with this beautiful piece of work and for your encouraging comment on mine.

Comment is about Emotional health (blog)

Original item by hugh

This has a familiar feeling without being overwrought--excellent )

Comment is about Sven's soul funk (blog)

Original item by Red Brick Keshner

Thanks kindly @Aisha Suleman 🌷very much appreciated 🙏🏻🕊️

Comment is about hair in the wind (blog)

Original item by Wimpole Street Devils

Thanks to all for the kind reception of this poem. You are all much appreciated 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷
🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷
This means absolutely so much🕊️🙏🏻

Comment is about flight ready (blog)

Original item by Red Brick Keshner

So late...

I think there is an argument for angst.

Simply stated it says that clearly expressing a problem in words is the better part of the battle.

Clarity is the trick, though. Otherwise, it's lip service.

Comment is about Harm (blog)

Original item by David RL Moore

Next Exit, Interpol--

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1hkLiB4MBkU&pp=ygUSaW50ZXJwb2wgbmV4dCBleGl0

"it's not for lack of love of the language that these films have no words. It's because, from my point of view, our language is in a state of vast humiliation. It no longer describes the world in which we live."

--Godfrey Reggio on the film, Koyaanisqatsi

Comment is about flashlight (blog)

Original item by Landi Cruz

Thank you, Greg.

I will always remember the conclusion of his pithy tribute to Arnold Ridley, aka Private Godfrey of Dad's Army :

'You were the old one,
Who always wanted to go to the toilet.'

Farewell, and much missed.

Comment is about Farewell to Barry Fantoni, creator of Private Eye’s EJ Thribb (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

I'm not offended; mine are massive.💗

Comment is about The Heat is On (blog)

Original item by Nigel Astell

You have certainly written yourself back to wellness.A poem briliantly writen.Well done .

Comment is about Home (blog)

Original item by Mahira

This is such a beautiful poetry, Helene! I am very glad I came back to this site and visited your account particularly. In today's world, where there's so much hatred and animosity, these are the very words the heart yearns for. Words that assure one that love still exists, and is still thought of as the purest feeling by people.
Thank you for this assurance and thank you for your encouraging words on my latest work! Looking forward to reading more of your work.

Comment is about Intention (blog)

Original item by Hélène

Thank you, Aisha! Your poems are like a savory cup of coffee or tea. They pep me up!

Comment is about Ready, Set, Rise! (blog)

Original item by Aisha Suleman

Mental health challenges are daunting. Can we breathe, sing, and write our way back to wellness? Welcome back to poetry writing and reading, Mahira, and thanks for sharing your heartfelt poem. Poems live inside of us, and we are all connected. Sending love and well wishes.

Comment is about Home (blog)

Original item by Mahira

We truly have lost so much in our quest to urbanize. This poetry is a beautiful depiction of the gruesome consequences human greed and ambitions. Love it!

Comment is about HERE'S TO THE GREENERY (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Thanks Graham,

David RL Moore

Comment is about Moses meets Mo (blog)

Original item by David RL Moore

Thank you for sharing your thoughts RB - cheers!

Comment is about Dauntless (blog)

Original item by Mike McPeek

Thank you, once again, Rolph.
“This is not defence or right,”.

It never has been about that…and it didn’t begin on October the 7th 2024.
In the same year that the National Health Service appeared to resurrect the trappings of civilisation and social justice in UK society, saving both my mother’s life and my own, a descent into barbarity began, in the name of Western / USA colonialism, signed off by Balfour.
The project that was the Palestinian Nakba, continues to be enabled by abject cowardice, hypocrisy and lies on the part of the British establishment.

Comment is about No Land For Peace (blog)

Original item by Rolph David

Says it all David! Bang on! One of your best, succinct and clear!

Comment is about Moses meets Mo (blog)

Original item by David RL Moore

Very effective and a little disturbing, Clare. The addiction or obligation to write has not caught up with me yet, not quite, but I see exactly what you mean.

Comment is about Succubus. (blog)

Original item by Clare